INMATES WORKING
It was snowing and fourteen degrees outside as I zipped down the highway towards the Montessori school to sing happy-Earth-songs with the kids. But traffic slowed, and then almost completely [...]
Checking In, Getting Real
There are updates on the website: A new photo! Sidebar with info on currently published essays! Archived News, Obsessions, & Otherwise!Official website – See updates! I’ve been hiding for [...]
Upon Waking
And how in the morning,with my body stretched like canvasover the edge of your bed,I wanted you to tear into me,slowly unrolling that long endured tensionuntil we broke together like two trees [...]
Sorry, I’m Sleepy…
There are chocolate wrappers and unopened dental dams on the floor. Bass music from the bar above us pounds like a thunderhead. On stage, a butch woman gone transvestite and a femme lesbian [...]
AWP or Bust
It is decided. I will go to AWP in Atlanta at the end of the month. Cass, from the MFA program, called and is coming out to the east coast for a week, three days at AWP (where she will read from [...]
A Day in the Life of Drafts
At the request of a reader, here is an example of what I do all day when I sit at the desk and start a draft of something. My advisor has asked me to write in the past tense, which is challenging [...]
Recharging
I dreamt in stanzas last night, the waning yet swollen moon holding court over my cabin loft, the wind rushing down the slopes of the Black Mountains like water gone wild. And so the words were [...]
The Ways of Weather
This morning I awoke to screaming winds and the sound of snapping tin outside. I quickly dressed in warm layers and went outside to assess the damages. The temperature? About four degrees – [...]
Yeats’ Yikes!
What makes a poet choose one line over another? One word for another? It’s dusk and I am reading the Norton Anthology of Poetry from its permanent perch on my breakfast table. The script is small [...]
